South Pasadena Municipal Code Art. II Traffic-Control Devices

• For state law as to traffic signs, signals and markings, see Veh. C. A., §§ 465 to 478. For requirement that signs conform to uniform standards, see Veh. C. A., § 465.9.

The city manager is hereby authorized to place and maintain official traffic-control devices when and as required under the provisions of this chapter.

Whenever the Vehicle Code of the state requires, for the effectiveness of any provision thereof, that traffic-control devices be installed to give notice to the public of the application of such law, the city manager is hereby authorized to install the necessary devices subject to any limitations or restrictions set forth in the law applicable thereto.

The city manager may also place and maintain such additional traffic-control devices as he may deem necessary to regulate traffic or to guide or to warn traffic, which determination shall be upon the basis of traffic engineering principles and traffic investigations. (Ord. No. 1106, § 3.01.)

• For state law authorizing local authorities to regulate traffic by means of signaling devices, see Veh. C. A., § 459.

No provisions of the Vehicle Code or of this chapter for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator unless appropriate signs are in place and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person, giving notice of such provisions of the traffic laws. (Ord. No. 1106, § 3.02.)

Whenever the city manager installs and maintains an official traffic signal at any intersection, he or she shall likewise erect and maintain at such intersection street name signs visible to the principal flow of traffic, unless such street name signs have previously been placed and are maintained at the intersection. (Ord. No. 1106, § 3.01.)

• For state law requiring street name signs at signal-controlled intersections, see Veh. C. A., § 495.92.

The city manager is hereby authorized to mark center lines and lane lines upon the surface of the roadway to indicate the course to be traveled by vehicles and may place signs temporarily designating lanes to be used by traffic moving in a particular direction, regardless of the center line of the highway. (Ord. No. 1106, § 3.03.)

The city manager is authorized to place markers, buttons or signs within, adjacent to or between intersections indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, and to allocate and indicate more than one lane of traffic from which drivers of vehicles may make right or left-hand turns; and the course to be traveled as so indicated may conform to or be other than as prescribed by law or ordinance.

When authorized markers, buttons or other indications are placed within an intersection, or between intersections, indicating the course to be traveled by vehicles turning thereat, no driver of a vehicle shall disobey the directions of such indications. (Ord. No. 1106, § 4.01.)

The city manager shall determine the hours and days during which any traffic-control device shall be in operation or be in effect, except in those cases where such hours or days are specified in this chapter. (Ord. No. 1106, § 3.01.)

The city manager is hereby authorized to remove, relocate or discontinue the operation of any traffic-control device not specifically required by state law or this chapter, whenever he or she shall determine in any particular case that the conditions which warranted or required the installation no longer exist or obtain. (Ord. No. 1106, § 3.01.)